They both served 23 2011. Right in the meat of the last recession and prior to it. So this panel is going to be a bit of a History Lesson. I think they put this off, depressingly wonderfully. If you can say that is a phrase. Ive heard him speak a few times. Ive never heard him speak on something negative. This is going to be a bit of a History Lesson so i want to set the stage of it or what was going on in the years and months leading up to when it started. So its just a reminder, the Great Recession started in the end of 2007 and it was the largest instate revenue on record. By 2010, a loss in total revenue that they glossed from the downturn. In times of economic downturn, theres more pressure on services and things that pressure and money disappearing. Id like to set the stage a bit for these two states. For vermont, heading into 2009, before the stimulus began kicking in, the state was looking at a 82 million defic deficit, heading into 2009 and you think thats bad, they were proje
Minute look at quick u. S. Equity futures at this hour show you how things look to be opening up in about 3 1 2 hours from now dow would be off about 20 points nasdaq looking to open up 15 points s p 500 looking to open off a little off well call it 3 1 2 points right now and also show you whats happening overnight in asia right now as we speak. Youre looking at red arrows across the board but well call it marginal except for the hang sang take a quick look at european equities as well as we flip that board around youre looking at mostly red picture, except the ftse 100 looking up 1 right now and finally treasury yields, tenyear notes unless youre looking for a 30year fixed right now the tenyear note is at 2. 060 joe . Big deal of the morning. Big. Big. Mylan, potential pharma deal to tell you about. Unit of pfizer with mylan. Thats right. Were expecting this news to be announced sometime this morning. What were hearing is that pfizer plans to spin off a unit called up john, off patent
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